Tag Archives: data practices

Chapter on “data witnessing” in Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication

By jwyg | Published: October 25, 2021

Happy to have my research on “data witnessing” included in the new Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication edited by Lilie Chouliaraki and Anne Vestergaard. Here’s the book blurb: The Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication […]

Posted in academia, data, data activism, data aesthetics, data politics, publications, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Amnesty International, Data Activism, Data Witnessing, Decoders, digital humanitarianism, science and technology studies | Comments closed

Interview in New Internationalist on air pollution data practices

By jwyg | Published: May 12, 2020

I was recently interviewed by New Internationalist co-editor Amy Hall for the cover story of its latest edition on air pollution. We spoke about a recent interdisciplinary research project at King’s College London on “Doing Participation with Air Pollution Data” also building on the Public Data Lab’s Save Our Air project. Here’s an excerpt: Jonathan […]

Posted in data, data activism, environment, interviews, media appearances, Public Data Lab, quotes, research | Also tagged Air pollution, climate change, King's College London, New Internationalist, participation, sensing devices, sensors | Comments closed

Book Chapter “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance” in Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)

By jwyg | Published: May 6, 2020

I’ve just had a chapter on “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance” published in a new book on Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) edited by Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen. The book is open access and you can download the whole manuscript as as PDF […]

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New paper: “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project” in Information, Communication & Society

By jwyg | Published: February 20, 2019

Information, Communication & Society have just published an article that I wrote on “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project”. The article is open access and the abstract and full reference are copied below. This piece would not have been possible without the time and input from the list of […]

Posted in academia, data, data activism, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, Critical Data Studies, Data, Data Activism, data and society, data infrastructures, data publics, data studies, Data Visualisation, Data Witnessing, data work, data worlds, Decoders, digital witnessing, Media Studies, media witnessing, New Media Studies, science and technology studies | Comments closed

Table of contents and chapter previews for “The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice”

By jwyg | Published: December 12, 2018

As we announced last year, Liliana Bounegru and I are currently co-editing a new edition of the The Data Journalism Handbook which will be published on Amsterdam University Press next year. As it says in the introduction, the book is “a collective experiment in accounting for data journalism practices and a collective invitation to explore […]

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Hello Public Data Lab

By jwyg | Published: April 4, 2017

Apart from working on my Data Worlds book, one of the things that I’ve been doing as part of my Prize Fellowship at the University of Bath is working to set up a new trans-national, trans-institutional Public Data Lab. I’m delighted to announce that Sage Publishing have recently committed to supporting the lab to help […]

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Jonathan Gray is Senior Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Co-Founder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam and the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris. Find out more here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.